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Dales Festival of Food & Drink
May 2, 2012 In Wensleydale, Story of the weekPip Pointon
Above: The founders of Leyburn's Dales Festival of Food & Drink with Richard Whiteley in May 2004. From the left (the late) Keith Knight, (the late) Richard Whiteley, Ann Hodgson, Margaret Knight and Gerald Hodgson. Below is a feature I wrote in April 2003 about how the festival began, followed by photographs from 2002, 2003 and 2004.
The Festival in 2016 will be held in Leyburn town centre on June 18 and 19. See
Driving into Leyburn in Wensleydale for the first day of the Dales Festival of Food & Drink in 2002 was an amazing experience. The town centre was so full of people that one little boy commented: "It's just like London." During the foot and mouth epidemic the year before Leyburn had been almost like a ghost town and a pall of smoke and depression had hung over Wensleydale. But four local people were determined to help kick start the dales economy.
Over 15,000 attended that first festival and it has become an important annual event in North Yorkshire and beyond. I interviewed Keith and Margaret Knight and Gerald and Ann Hodgson in April 2003 for their story about the founding of the festival and this was published in the Darlington and Stockton Times. To mark the 10th anniversary here is that story:
Good friendships and the hands-on approach were major factors in the success of the first Festival of Food and Drink in Leyburn, Wensleydale, in 2002. And at the heart of the team were four people with a vision: Ann and Gerald Hodgson and Margaret and Keith Knight. It all started with Ann being irritated by the way urban politicians and planners viewed the countryside.
"I got terribly upset listening to instructions to farmers that they had to change their lives and that the countryside should be a large pleasure ground for the tourists. And all these farmers were going to have to change their way of life by applying for grants. That upset me again. Most of the farmers were born around here. They love and understand the land and how to use it, and have great animal husbandry skills. All this knowledge is so important and not to be just packaged up and changed. We have this wonderful countryside – let's use it.
"Let's tell everyone we are good farmers, that we provide excellent food and everyone can come to Leyburn and buy it. We should have a food festival I said. I was thinking more about the flower and wine festivals in Europe. I used Gerald as a sounding board."
This was just after Margaret Knight started her two year stint as chairman of the Leyburn and Mid Wensleydale Business Association. So Gerald told her about Ann's idea. They also shared it with Richard and Jacqueline Wells who told them there was an annual food festival at Ludlow. At their own expense, the Hodgsons and Knights headed for Ludlow just a few weeks later.
"We had a lovely time and were very impressed," commented Mrs Knight. "I walked around with a pad of paper and if I saw a good idea I would make a note of it. Those notes were the foundation of our planning."
"But we never thought we could do as well," added her husband, Keith.
"That festival had been running for eight years and had worked up to 12,000 visitors," said Mr Hodgson. "It had clearly had a considerable impact upon the town of Ludlow which has become a nationally renowned centre for good food. We noted good ideas and added our own. It was held in the centre of the town and that seemed very important because that created a great atmosphere. They had made only a small effort to involve the farming community but we wanted to involve the farmers in a more meaningful way."
They also wanted to make sure that all local businesses benefited. But they never thought they would do as well as Ludlow in their first year. "We expected a total of 8,000 people and we got 15,000," said Mr Hodgson.
Mrs Knight, as chairman of the business association, got the ball rolling by organising an open meeting. Among those invited were representatives of the local churches. "We thought we had done a fair amount of work but St Matthew's scored four tries," said Mrs Knight. "They suggested the band concert, flowers in the church, refreshments and that lovely cookery book. The Methodists also organised food and a pudding tasting competition."
"The business association was a great help because they said they would bank roll it. Without that we would not have been able to go ahead," said Mr Knight. They decided to look for funding because with that they could plan with more confidence, including ordering the marquees. In the end they received £20,000 from various agencies as they emphasised the need to counteract the devastating effects of the foot and mouth epidemic in 2001. Even so, as Mrs Hodgson said, it was an ambitious decision to go for a three-day event. "People could not envisage what we were trying to do. They could not believe it. That was the worse moment for me. I thought it was going to fail."
"In January and February 2002 we debated if we should pull the plug on the whole thing," said Mr Knight. "We had no idea how many people would come. It was a leap of faith.But all were used to facing tough times.
Mr Knight had been a train control system consultant and they had lived quite a transient life before moving back to England after five years in the States. They looked at properties in the Lake District and the dales and found something suitable in Leyburn.At first they had a bread and breakfast business but this almost came to a standstill during the miners' strike. They were facing bankruptcy when the local vicar pointed out there was a need for good quality residential care for the elderly.
"It was a complete gamble," commented Mr Knight. But it worked well right through to their retirement in 2002. The Hodgson's retired in 2001when they sold Copley Decor in Leyburn to their long term business colleague, Bruce Storr.
"We first came to Leyburn 25 years ago and started that business in an outbuilding beside our house," said Mr Hodgson. When that was moved to a premises on Leyburn business estate Mrs Hodgson was busy developing a special idea of her own in those same outbuildings. She came from a textile background in Bradford but as a young woman was thoroughly frustrated that the whole wool trade only employed women as secretaries or tea makers.
In the dales she was fascinated by the Wensleydale Longwool sheep. "They have a magnificent fleece. Its probably the world's finest lustre wool," she said. At that time the breed was in decline. She said that the main way to promote it was to use the wool. And so she started the Wensleydale Longwool Sheep Shop, which is now run by Ann Bolam and Ruth Tombleson at Garriston near Leyburn. Under Ann's guidance the shop twice won an International Quality award from the British Wool Marketing Board.
The Hodgsons and the Knights were also encouraged to keep going in 2002 by the rest of the steering committee set up to organise the festival. "David Berry, Alistair Davy and Elizabeth Hird were just great," commented Mr Hodgson. "Another major contributor was Mavis Parry who joined the team as the representative of Leyburn Town Council." In the end about 35 people were involved besides the small army of volunteers who helped throughout the festival.
"Ann worked immensely hard to persuade people to come," said Mr Hodgson. "It was a very big commitment for small businesses as they had to spend three days at the festival."
His wife added: "They had to make all the preparations beforehand and there was a lo t of clearing up afterwards. We were trying to give confidence to everyone to go ahead. But we had to proceed with it. It was really worthwhile not just for us but for the whole area." And all their hard work did pay off for not only was that first festival a big success but everyone who had a stand in the food hall last year returned in 2003. And more booked to join them.
"I would love to see the festival being automatically included on everyone's calendar just as the Yorkshire Show is," said Mrs Hodgson. To which Mrs Knight added: "We also want the local people to have a good time." Their ultimate aim was summed up by the Hodgsons: "We want Leyburn to become nationally recognised as a centre of good food based on the wholesome production of the surrounding countryside."
The festivals in 2002 and 2003 were held in the centre of Leyburn. Margaret Knight spent most of the first festival wearing an apron as she was so busy making sure that the theatre marquee was clean and tidy for each demonstration. She was still cleaning up the day after the festival – and was spotted "shut in" the market shelter. Her husband and the Hodgsons all helped with tidying up afterwards – and for the Hodgsons that included moving a rather sorry looking "sheep".
Among the special guests in 2002 were Clarissa Dickson Wright and Johnny Scott who signed copies of their books. Derek Kettlewell of Raydale Preserves has been among those who have regularly had stalls in the main marquee. And Andrew Thwaite had his Wensleydale family there to help at his chocolate stall including his grandmother, Isabel Robinson, and his mother (right) Gillian Thwaite.
Richard Whiteley joined Andrew Thwaite in the theatre marquee during the 2003 festival for lessons in how to make chocolate much to the delight of a packed audience. "It was great fun. I've never made chocolates before and I thoroughly enjoyed myself," Mr Whiteley said.
Below: Rick Stein was one of the guests at the 2003 festival where he enjoyed sampling the roast pork at the Mainsgill Farmshop stand and trying his hand at Craske's traditional shooting gallery. Gerald Hodgson took good care of him during his visit to Leyburn. Also pictured: Local estate agent Brian Carlisle with all those balloons, and the young four-legged star of the farming marquee.
After the 2003 festival it was decided to move to a field on the outskirts of Leyburn for the festival had already outgrown the town's market square. This new site has proved to be a big success as it provides plenty of space of the large marquees as well as room (on warm, dry days) for families to sit on the grass and relax.
Also photographed in 2004: Richard Whiteley after a cookery lesson with Peter Ball of Darlington College; Gervaise Phinn book signing; and Ffion Hague tasting honey watched by her husband, William Hague MP.
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Scientists in Singapore are converting plastic into power using sunlight
By Thomas Parker 12 Dec 2019
Chemists from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore say the chemicals produced could be used for energy generation by power plants
Using a solution made from dissolved metal, scientists involved in the experiment broke down carbon bonds in the plastic by exposing it to artificial sunlight (Credit: Pixabay)
Scientists at a Singapore university have discovered a way of converting plastic waste into valuable chemicals through the power of sunlight.
Researchers mixed plastics with a solution that harnesses light energy, converting the dissolved material into formic acid – a naturally-occurring substance commonly found in the venom of bee and ant stings.
The team at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) developed a solution from biocompatible metal vanadium, traditionally found in steel and aluminum alloys for vehicles and aircraft.
To convert the waste into formic acid, the vanadium and plastic was mixed together, and exposed to artificial sunlight.
Assistant professor Soo Han Sen, who led the NTU research, said: "We aimed to develop sustainable and cost-effective methods to harness sunlight to manufacture fuels and other chemical products"
"This new chemical treatment is the first reported process that can completely break down a non-biodegradable plastic such as polyethylene using visible light and a catalyst that does not contain heavy metals."
Formic acid can be used for energy generation by power plants and in hydrogen fuel cells.
Singapore government aims to reduce waste sent to landfill
In under two decades, the amount of solid waste generated in Singapore has grown by almost two-thirds, from 4.7 million tonnes 2000 to 7.7 million tonnes in 2018.
Most of this, including its plastic, is disposed via incineration, with the leftover ash sent to the Semakau landfill.
First opened in 1999, Singapore's only landfill is rapidly being filled up with waste – with the offshore site predicted to run out of space by 2035.
Singapore's offshore Semakau landfill is expected to be full by 2035 (Credit: Wikimedia/Meutia Chaerani/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Chaerani/gallery)
At the end of August, the country's Ministry of the Environment and Waste Resources (MEWR) launched its inaugural Zero Waste Masterplan, which aims to reduce the amount of rubbish sent to Semakau by 30% by 2030.
This was done by the MEWR to extend the life span of the site beyond 2035.
One way the nation plans to do this is by introducing 50 "smart" reverse vending machines (RVM) – devices that accept used beverage containers and return money to the user – across Singapore by March 2020.
Announced by the National Environment Agency (NEA) in October, it aims to use RVMs to encourage consumers to adopt an eco-conscious lifestyle by offering a rewarding way to recycle empty plastic drinks bottles and aluminium cans.
The scheme is supported by Singaporean food manufacturer F&N Foods and supermarket chain FairPrice.
Speaking at the time, the NEA's CEO Tan Meng Dui said: "We are happy to work with F&N Foods and FairPrice on this initiative, to make it more convenient for the public to recycle their plastic drink bottles and cans, and encourage everyone to adopt a more environmentally-conscious lifestyle.
"This RVM initiative is also part of NEA's effort to test out different public collection systems, as we work towards implementing an extended producer responsibility scheme for packaging waste over the next few years.
"NEA will continue to work with partners and stakeholders to encourage the public to recycle more, and to recycle right.
"Together, we can build a more sustainable Singapore."
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Place all ingredients in a large jar with a tight-fitting lid. Shake well to mix. Use immediately and store the remainder in a cool, dry place.
Combine the tomatoes, their juices, the butter, and the onion halves in a medium saucepan.
Add a pinch or two of salt. Place over medium heat and bring to a simmer. Cook, uncovered, at a very slow but steady simmer, adjusting the heat as necessary, for about 45 minutes, or until droplets of fat float free from the tomato.
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Considering Predictive or Prescriptive Analytics? You Actually Need Both!
Without a doubt, data analytics are a foundation component for a complete IT solution. Most realize that the explosive growth of machine-generated data can reveal keys to improved business performance. The challenge is in making sense of collected data and unlocking its value.
The most recognized concept is predictive analytics. Through machine learning, it is possible to model how a piece of equipment operates and identify the factors that influence its behavior. Once you understand the leading indicators to a failure event, you can then monitor for those conditions and take proactive action. This is a powerful tool when applied to mission critical equipment where unexpected downtime has a serious impact to the business.
Less attention has been given to prescriptive analytics. Leveraging the same data models that are used to understand equipment behavior, you can establish a desired baseline of performance and then compare that to real-time operations in the field. Not only does this enable you to identify equipment that does not conform to the baseline, but this technique can provide a prescriptive remediation plan for bringing it into compliance. With the right systems in place, you can immediately deploy the plan to equipment through automation.
When thinking through your IoT strategy, I encourage you to combine both types of analytics to achieve your business objectives. Together, it will maximize the uptime and performance of your critical corporate assets.


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"ProdPerfect has identified 5-6 potentially site breaking bugs. The service was entirely worth it as soon as we found 1. It's an integral part of our testing and deployment pipelines, and knowing that our integration tests are constantly up-to-date and protecting our core workflows has empowered our engineering and product teams to deliver more efficiently."
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Negotiatus: Move Fast But Don't Break Things
Many dev teams take the "haste makes waste" approach to development—quality is key. Others emphasize that having an edge in product strength and features wins the day: they're willing to "move fast and break stuff"–it can get fixed later. Tom Jaklitsch, CTO of Negotiatus, knew he needed the best of both worlds for his team to thrive.
Tom co-founded Negotiatus in 2016, and has led the company to explosive growth in just three years. Negotiatus is a cloud-based spend management software that alleviates the pain points of the procurement process. It's one place for every purchase, for every department, from every vendor–and by streamlining purchasing, their customers save significantly on both the goods they are buying and the time required to manage the process. Negotiatus quickly reached millions in annual revenue, raised a venture round in August 2018, and began to rapidly grow the team.
Scaling with Panache
Tom's team tripled in the past year, and is growing even faster. "I knew many promising startups stumbled as they scaled," said Tom. "I wasn't willing to sacrifice the discipline and quality that made us great as we expanded. Because of how integrated Negotiatus is in businesses' workflows, letting major bugs into production is unacceptable." Tom's team follows strict coding practices and tests rigorously, but he knew he needed strong end to end testing automation to allow his team to accelerate deployment without losing the quality benefits of meticulous testing.
Tom had been approached by many services hoping to outsource or crowdsource his testing process, and had considered hiring an in-house QA Engineering team. When he met ProdPerfect, he was interested instantly–he believed he could achieve accurate and broad testing coverage and efficient test maintenance by working with them, allowing his team to move quickly while thoroughly testing every single build before it went to production.
Months later, Tom's plan is working. His team is moving fast, maintaining high product quality, and spending far less on QA than they would with alternatives. "ProdPerfect has identified 5-6 potentially site breaking bugs. The service was entirely worth it as soon as we found 1. It's an integral part of our testing and deployment pipelines, and knowing that our integration tests are constantly up-to-date and protecting our core workflows has empowered our engineering and product teams to deliver more efficiently." Tom and the Negotiatus team continue to scale, thrive, and rapidly expand Negotiatus' value to its customers.


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Members of Lions Club, Ipoh City Watch, Council workers and Canning State Assemblyman, Wong Kah Woh and his team organised a clean-up of Polo Ground ala gotong royong on the morning of Saturday, October 3. The mass clean-up of the city's favourite public park by a combined force of some 80 personnel was prompted by fears of dengue that has been plaguing the city of late.
"The objective of the gotong royong is to help resolve a long-standing problem affecting Ipohites. We'll concentrate on clearing mosquito-breeding areas within this much-loved park and, hopefully, help to reduce cases of dengue," said Dato' Dr Wenddi Anne Chong, the coordinator of this joint Lions' community and environment project.
"Polo Ground is a favourite with Ipohites. It's a place where people come to exercise and to spend their free time. Thus it's only proper to not only keep it clean, but mosquito-free as well" added Wenddi, the proprietor of Marianis, a fine-dining restaurant in town.
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UConn pulls away for 69-57 victory over Hartford
By David Borges
New Haven Register (TNS)
STORRS — On to Bubbleville.
UConn jumped out to a huge lead against Hartford on Friday night, overcame foul trouble and some hot Hartford shooting and held on for a 69-57 victory at Gampel Pavilion.
The Huskies led 24-7 midway through the first half and appeared en route to an easy victory, after getting more of a battle than anticipated from Central Connecticut State in their season-opener two nights earlier. But the Hawks slowly climbed back, helped by a steady parade to the foul line, and were within three (40-37) after Traci Carter hit a lane jumper about seven minutes into the latter half. Hartford would never get closer, and it was UConn senior forward Isaiah Whaley who pushed the Huskies to the finish line, scoring six points (including a pair of thunderous dunks) and coming up with a key blocked shot to allow the Huskies to pull away a bit.
With 4:35 left, Whaley scored on a lefthanded transition layup to put the Huskies up 10. He then swatted away a shot by Carter that led to a runout and a driving layup by Tyrese Martin. After another Hawk turnover,
Whaley slammed home a transition dunk to put the Huskies up 12. Hartford would get back to within nine, but never closer. Whaley finished with a double-double (10 points, 10 rebounds).
James Bouknight scored a team-high 18 points — though only two in the second half — before fouling out, Jalen Gaffney added a career-high 15 points and R.J. Cole 10.
Moses Flowers led Hartford with 24 points.
UConn (2-0) is slated to face Vanderbilt in its first game of the Legends Classic on Tuesday evening at Mohegan Sun Arena — a.k.a. "Bubbleville."
Behind the hot hand of Bouknight at first, then a brief stretch from Adama Sanogo, the Huskies busted out to a 24-7 start.
Hartford missed nine of its first 10 shots. But UConn encountered foul trouble midway through the half, with Andre Jackson picking up three fouls and R.J. Cole and Tyler Polley two apiece.
The Hawks took advantage, closing out the half on an 11-4 run that brought them to within 12 (38-26) at the break.
Hartford stayed hot to start the latter half, jumping out to an 11-2 start to get within three.
Besides Bouknight fouling out, Cole and Tyler Polley (zero points, one rebound) also finished with four fouls.
Hartford shot 21-for-27 from the foul line; the Huskies were 8-for-14.
It was Hartford's first game of the season, after its slated season-opener against Merrimack was canceled two nights earlier.
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After having to sit out Wednesday's season-opener because of playing in an unauthorized summer league game, Tyrese Martin made his UConn debut. Martin, a Rhode Island transfer, finished with six points and 10 rebounds.
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St. Albans - On the evening of September 6th, 2017, our father took our mother's hand to join him in heaven.
Born in St. Albans on April 22nd, 1929, Janet was the daughter of the late Harvey and Adele (Lancaster) Brault. She was 88 years old.
Janet married Carlton K. Bartlett on November 24th, 1949, he predeceased her on May 24th, 1998.
She was a longtime bookkeeper at the Grand Union Store in St. Albans, a communicant of St. Mary's Parish, where she was involved with the Bereavement Committee. Janet was a former member of the Business and Professional Women of Franklin County and Green Mountain Post # 1, American Legion Auxiliary.
Janet is survived by her loving family, Carolyn Bartlett-Flood of St. Albans, Susan Howrigan and her husband, Thomas, of Fairfield, Mary Bartlett and George Samson of St. Albans; grandchildren Matthew and Kerri Howrigan of Fairfield, Luke & Nicole Howrigan of Fairfield, Tyler and Jen Howrigan Fairfield, Connecticut, Alex and Lise Howrigan of Highgate, Molly Lovelette and James Williams of Westford, Adam and Liza Lovelette of Milton, Shaun and Andrea Lovelette of St. Albans, John Flood and Sofia Diaz of Indianapolis, Indiana and Chris and Kathy Quinn of Dover, New Hampshire. She is also survived by her great-grandchildren, Liam, Gabe, Cole, Reid, Nolan, Finn, Eva, Nora, Corinne and Chase Howrigan and Sarah and Caitlin Quinn; her nieces, Christine Lynch and her family and Nancy Brault and her family and her beloved feline companion, Chloe.
In addition to her parents and husband, Carlton, Janet was pre-deceased by her great-grandson, Grady Howrigan on July 28th, 2017, her brother, Edward Brault, nephew, John Brault and sister-in-law and best friend, Claire Brault Jette.
In the heartbreaking loss of our mom, our entire family would like to express our love, our gratitude, our appreciation to Homestead....for their devotion, their compassion, their dedication and their love: Especially Sara Holmes, Lacey, Justin, and Jem.
At Janet's request, there will be no calling hours.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Tuesday, September 12th, 2017 at 11:00 A.M. at St. Mary's Catholic Church, 45 Fairfield Street, St. Albans. Interment will be in the family lot in Mount Calvary Cemetery.
It was Janet's request that memorial contributions go to Luke and Nicole Howrigan, for the Grady's Golden Goodness Fund, 689 Lapland Road, East Fairfield, Vermont 05448 or Franklin County Animal Rescue, 30 Sunset Meadow, St. Albans, Vermont 05478.
To send the Bartlett family a written expression of sympathy or share a memory, please go to Janet's on-line guest book at www.healdfuneralhome.com.


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Mobile telecoms in Pakistan
At last, 3G
The government raises a bit of money and gets a long-awaited industry started
BusinessApr 26th 2014 edition
IN PAKISTAN, as in other poor parts of the world, mobile telecoms are vital to the country's development, bypassing obstructive bureaucrats and bringing services directly to the masses—from banking to voter registration. Yet it is the only country in South Asia that does not have high-speed mobile internet, because only this week, after eight years of delays and regulatory snarl-ups, did it at last hold an auction of the spectrum required to roll out 3G and 4G services.
Demand for the licences fell short of the government's hopes. The finance minister, Ishaq Dar, had talked of the auction raising $2 billion; in the end it produced just under $1.2 billion. Successful bids were made by two local operators, Mobilink and Ufone, and two foreign ones, China Mobile and Telenor of Norway. Two other big foreign firms that had been expected to take part, Saudi Telecom and Turkcell of Turkey, got cold feet after, it is said, having their request for exclusive one-year licences rejected.
The year Pakistan's government first talked about auctioning 3G spectrum, 2006, was the year Sri Lanka actually started its services. India held its auction in 2010. Even now, in both these countries only a modest proportion of the population enjoys access to high-speed mobile broadband—but they are far ahead of Pakistan and Bangladesh (see chart).
In 2003 Pakistan's then military dictator, Pervez Musharraf, deregulated mobile telecoms to attract foreign investment. But the civilian administration that succeeded him in 2008 spent years lurching from one crisis to another, and failed to promote the industry. A new government, in power since last June, has faced down protests from opposition politicians and, at last, held the auction.
It could have copied war-torn Afghanistan, which has done without an auction, and simply sold licences at low prices, starting in 2012. It did so on the grounds that the economic boost from introducing 3G should be bigger than the one-off windfall from an auction that might have got mired in corruption allegations.
Pakistan's new government, however, needed cash to replenish its foreign reserves. It has not got as much as it wanted, but a less competitive auction may give the successful operators more of a chance to build a profitable business. They have long been plagued by fickle government policies and tight margins in a market that has some of the lowest average revenues per user in the world, at around $2 a month.
With a crippling energy crisis that leaves its cities powerless for up to 12 hours a day and the villages for longer, and an Islamist insurgency that has paralysed businesses and deterred all but the bravest foreign investors, the country of nearly 200m people sorely needs the boost that high-speed mobile-internet access should bring. A recent study by a British consulting firm, commissioned by the Pakistani government, predicted that by increasing economic activity it could help create up to 900,000 jobs over the next four years, and bring in hundreds of millions of dollars a year of new tax revenues.
Nevertheless, as elsewhere in South Asia, the spread of the mobile internet is likely to be slow, since it depends on people replacing their basic handsets with smartphones, which remain unaffordable for most Pakistanis. So far less than 10% of the country's 132m mobile subscribers have smartphones, according to industry figures. However, Pakistan's mobile operators are playing a long game. Even the local ones have deep-pocketed foreign backers that are prepared to wait for growth to pick up and dividends to flow.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline "At last, 3G"


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Why the Honduras Crisis Matters to Me
by Rick Sterling / December 12th, 2017
For seven months in 1969 I hitch-hiked around the US, Mexico and Central America with my best friend from high school. Some class-mates from our school in Vancouver Canada saved their money then travelled to Europe or Australia but Ollie and I headed south. It was an eye-opening experience for two middle class Canadians. We had a lot of learning experiences in the US but today I want to talk about Honduras because it is in crisis as I write this: the Honduran election took place on 26 November yet the results are still in contention. Will the current right wing government manage to retain power?
When we visited the capital Tegucigalpa in 1969 we went to the university campus to meet and hang out with young Hondurans. They told us about the recent visit of President Richard Nixon who had taken office a few months before and then travelled to Latin America. The Vietnam war was still raging in 1969 and people protested against the war and Nixon wherever he went. The young Hondurans told us that when Nixon visited Tegucigalpa there had been a big protest. Several students who had been protesting from the top of a university building had been shot dead. It made an impression as did the warm and friendly people we met, some living in shacks along the banks of the Choluteca River running through the capital.
In Nicaragua we heard more eye-opening stories from the youth there. They told us about the Somoza family dictatorship, how corrupt it was, and how they came to power through US Marines. They also told us about the death of Cesar Sandino who fought for Nicaraguan independence but was killed by Somoza's National Guard in 1934. The Nicaraguan youth told us that when the US asked for proof of Sandino's death, Somoza shipped Sandino's head in a box to Washington.
Those and many other experiences changed my life. Over the coming decades I kept an interest in Central America.
In 1979, when Nicaraguans overthrew the Somoza dictatorship, it seemed like a good thing. But President Ronald Reagan did not like an independent Nicaragua. Violating international law, the US organized a mercenary army called the "Contras" to destabilize and upend the Sandinista government. The mercenaries were trained in Honduras with US funding, supplies and weapons. The US Ambassador to Honduras, John Negroponte, oversaw the mercenary army attacking Nicaragua and the emergence of death squads in El Salvador. Tens of thousands of peasants and opposition activists were killed with impunity. In Honduras, itself, there was widespread repression and murder of those challenging the status quo.
In 1998 Honduras was hit by Hurricane Mitch. The second worst Atlantic hurricane ever recorded caused huge destruction and death, especially in poor communities with weak infrastructure. The shacks and modest dwellings along the river bank in Tegucigalpa were all ripped and washed away. Over 7,000 Hondurans died, including people we had met three decades before.
Six years later, in 2004, I was again reminded of the US role in Honduras when the same John Negroponte who had overseen the Contra operations went to Baghdad to take over management of the Iraq occupation. Newsweek magazine said he was coming with a new strategy, which they dubbed the "Salvador option". Over the next year, sectarian death squads emerged to provoke sectarian bloodshed. Negroponte's right hand man in Iraq, Robert S. Ford, was later appointed as US Ambassador to Syria in 2010 where he helped fuel the uprisings in that country. Thus there is direct connection between U.S.interference and aggression in Central America and the Middle East.
For decades Honduras was alternately ruled by two political parties representing different branches of their oligarchy. They traded power back and forth, effectively preventing alternative perspectives.
But things began to change in Honduras in 2006. President Manuel Zelaya came from the oligarchy but started to initiate changes benefiting the poor. He called for real land reform, raising the minimum wage and he questioned the need for US military bases. That was too much. In June 2009 President Zelaya was kidnapped in the middle of the night and flown from the capital to the US military air base called Soto Cano, only 48 miles away. Hillary Clinton had been in Honduras just weeks before. She disapproved of Zelaya and his policies. The coup went ahead.
After the 2009 coup, conditions in Honduras deteriorated rapidly. Tegucigalpa became the homicide capital of the world. Tens of thousands of youth have fled the country as it has been wracked by drug wars, corruption, and police or paramilitary repression. Alongside this, there has been widespread popular resistance.
In 2011, I returned to Honduras to see the conditions first hand. With a delegation organized by Alliance for Global Justice and Task Force on the Americas, I visited peasants in the fertile Aguan Valley, indigenous communities in the mountains and workers and church activists in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula. We talked with a hard-working activist named Berta Caceres1 and others in her indigenous organization COPINH. We learned that these communities were still actively resisting the coup and forming a new political party to challenge the right wing coup government not with guns but with votes.
In 2013 I returned again to Honduras, this time as an election observer. In the contest, the new LIBRE party surpassed the traditional Liberal Party and made a strong challenge to the right wing National Party. There were many examples of election malfeasance but Juan Orlando Hernandez of the right wing National Party was anointed as the new President.
Since then social and economic conditions have not changed. The Hernandez regime governs to the benefit of rich Hondurans and international corporations. He has a strong military alliance with the US military and is very friendly with President Trump's Chief of Staff General Kelly.
That has set the stage for the most recent events. Days before the election The Economist ran an article describing a National Party training session in cheating techniques. The election was held on Sunday 26 November . On election night, with 57% of the votes counted, the opposition challenger was ahead by over 5%. Then strange things began to happen. The election commission stopped updating the vote tally for 36 hours. On Monday the head of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal said they were still missing 6,000 tally sheets from different polling places. A few hours later, he said they were missing 7500 tally sheets. When they resumed on Tuesday, suddenly the existing President Hernandez was gaining votes, cutting the opposition lead and then winning. It all looks very fishy, even to the OAS monitors.
The situation is rapidly coming to a head. At this moment it is not known what will happen. Initially the opposition demanded a full and complete review of all the 18,000 tally sheets. Now they are calling for the annulment of the election and a new election under international supervision.
The Honduran government is either stonewalling or is paralyzed. Hundreds of thousands of Hondurans have protested in the streets, with over twelve protesters killed. However, in a dramatic change, the elite para-military COBRA security forces have started to refuse orders, saying their job is not to repress their own communities.
Just as the 2009 coup in Honduras was a setback for all Latin America, the outcome of the current crisis will have consequences far beyond Honduras. As clearly articulated in this article, "The US has a lot riding on the Honduran election", the US foreign policy establishment wants the continuation of the government of Juan Orlando Hernandez (JOH).
Despite all the indications of electoral malfeasance and human rights abuses, the Trump Administration has praised the JOH government. Meanwhile, North American reporters, analysts and activists are doing what they can to support Honduran popular forces and stop the theft of the Honduran election. The coming days may be momentous. I have explained why it matters to me. But this is more important than a personal connection. It should matter to anyone concerned with progress, justice, respect and international law.
In 2015 Berta Caceres was recognized internationally with a prestigious award but last year she was murdered in her home. [↩]
Rick Sterling is an investigative journalist who has visited Syria several times since 2014. He lives in the SF Bay Area and can be reached at rsterling1@gmail.com. Read other articles by Rick.
This article was posted on Tuesday, December 12th, 2017 at 5:26am and is filed under Activism, Assassinations, Corruption, Culture, Donald Trump, Honduras, Media, Militarism, Nicaragua, Opinion, Police, Politics, United States.


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Reuters | Posted: Dec. 14, 2021, 7:50 a.m. | Updated: Dec. 14, 2021, 9:40 a.m. | 3 Min Read
(Reuters) - A post-pandemic economic recovery, a stock market surge to record highs and an uptick in the number of retail investors are fuelling a pick up in listings in Russia following a barren few years.
Russian car dealer Keyauto on Dec. 13 became the latest firm to confirm its intention to float shares, shortly after banking sources told Reuters that fertiliser producer EuroChem could raise more than $1 billion in a 2022 IPO.
Several others are expected to follow in a continued flurry of activity set in motion by the IPO of state shipping company Sovcomflot last October.
But Russia is not immune to market fluctuations. Gold miners GV Gold and Nordgold, car-sharing firm Delimobil and convenience store chain Mercury Retail Group all postponed IPOs this year.
Below is an overview of major market debuts by Russian companies:
* Four companies listed in the autumn of 2021. In November, SPB Exchange, Russia's second-largest bourse raised around $175 million in an IPO on its own platform. Real estate database Cian raised more than $290 million in a listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
* IT company Softline raised $400 million in a London listing in October, shortly after Renaissance Insurance raised $250 million in Moscow.
* In the first half of 2021, three companies staged market debuts. Cut-price retailer Fix Price's dual listing in London and Moscow raised almost $2 billion in March, making it the biggest Russian IPO since Western sanctions were introduced in 2014.
* Forestry group Segezha (Moscow Exchange; equivalent of $402 million), and healthcare provider EMC (Moscow Exchange; $500 million) followed suit in April and July.
* Kismet Acquisition One Corp, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), completed a deal with video game developer Nexters to start trading Nexters Inc. shares on the Nasdaq in August. It was the first deal involving a company from Russia and a Russian SPAC to list shares in the United States.
* The two major listings in 2020 were online retailer Ozon (Nasdaq; $990 million) in November and Sovcomflot (Moscow Exchange; $550 million) in October. Sovcomflot's IPO marked the first major stock exchange flotation in Moscow in three years.
* Other IPOs in 2019-2020 were Samolet (Moscow Exchange; $38.2 million), Headhunter (Nasdaq; $220 million), Kismet Acquisition One Corp (Nasdaq; $250 million), Don Agro (Singapore; $3.6 million) and Gemabank (Moscow Exchange; $2.4 million).
* Headhunter's 2019 debut was the first IPO of a Russian company in the United States since Washington began imposing sanctions on Moscow in 2014.
2018 AND EARLIER
* In 2018, there were no Russian IPOs for the first time in a decade.
* Sixteen Russian companies carried out IPOs from 2015-2017, compared with 43 deals between 2008 and 2014.
* The biggest Russian IPO to date was a $10.7 billion flotation by oil major Rosneft in London and Moscow in 2006, followed by an $8 billion offering from state-run VTB Bank in 2007.
(Reporting by Alexander Marrow, Andrey Ostroukh and Olga Popova; Editing by David Evans)


Bono and Paul McGuinness have contributed to Voices and Poetry of Ireland, a 3 CD and book anthology of Irish poetry that will benefit Focus Ireland, an organization that aims to combat homelessness and advance the rights of homeless people.
The list of contributors to Voices and Poetry of Ireland, which is supported by Poetry Ireland, reads like a Who's Who of Ireland. The book that accompanies the CDs contains the text of the poems, as well as photos and biographical information of the readers. Priced at Euro 40, the CD and book set will be available from Harper Collins in two weeks.
Read the press release and full list of poems and their readers.


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With the official nomination of President Obama's Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics, Michael Froman, as the next U.S. Trade Representative, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)has taken a vital and important step closer to the negotiating starting gate. Froman, a close friend and advisor of the President, has been central to the Obama Administration's trade agenda since 2009.
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Category: April 2012
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In the tug-of-war over new EU rules levying carbon taxes on airlines' flights, the U.S. has signaled for the first time that failure to change or at least postpone the European plan could hold up future progress on global climate-change talks.
Cost of Transatlantic Non-Tariff Barriers
Category: January 2010
A major new study documents the potential extra economic growth available on both sides of the Atlantic if the remaining non-tariff trade barriers were eliminated between the U.S. and the European Union.
Disagreement Over U.S. Beef Exports to the EU Solved - Temporarily
How Automation Shapes the Labor Market AND Political Preferences, By Thomas Kurer and Bruno Palier
5G and the World Radio Conference, By Patricia Paoletta
"My Life" By Jacques Chirac: A Review, By Michael Mosettig
Designing Public Private Partnerships that Work, By Gary Glickman
Europe's Parliamentary Elections Roil Europe's Economic Outlook, by J. Paul Horne
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Olney is a a great base from which to visit Santa Pod.
The circuit is perhaps best known for its drag racing. In a drag race two cars compete to accelerate the fastest over the course of about a quarter of a mile. The heats leave a winner progressing until there is one driver left. It's an exciting spectacle!
Santa Pod also hosts over 50 events between January and November including: National Drag Race meetings, Classic car events, Modified car shows (The Fast Show and USC), VW Beetle & Camper festivals (Bug Jam and Big Bang), Japanese Performance car events (The JapShows)and specialist events (Performance Vauxhall Show, Classic Ford Show, Mini in the Park, UK Truck Show, BMW Show, Wheels USA).


SPAIN: Higher onshore wind production drove an increase in the revenue of Iberdrola's renewables segment in the first half of the year.
The Spanish energy giant recorded €2.05 billion in revenue for the first six months of the year — up 22.5% on the same period a year ago.
Its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) also increased to €1.18 billion — a 25.5% increase on the first six months of 2017.
Iberdrola stated its renewables unit "improved its results thanks to a rise in onshore wind production in all countries, with a higher average installed capacity and greater wind resource".
The company's 15,541MW of onshore wind capacity at the end of June 2018 was just 4.3% more than a year earlier.
But higher wind resources and a greater load factor meant production increased 12.4% to 19,991GWh.
Iberdrola said onshore wind load factor grew to 29.7% in the period.
Meanwhile, its offshore capacity and production also increased with the gradual commissioning of the 350MW Wikinger project in Germany during the first quarter of 2018.
Iberdrola invested €876.3 million in its renewables division in the first half of the year — more than a third (36%) of total spending — including €336 million in the 714MW East Anglia One project off England's east coast.
It issued a €750 million public green bond scheme that will be used to finance or refinance East Anglia One as well.
Iberdrola also secured a $400 million (€342 million) loan to finance Mexican wind farms, and $213 million in tax equity to finance the 298MW El Cabo project co-owned by its North American subsidiary Avangrid in New Mexico, US.
The company entered three projects into the most recent German offshore wind auction in April. It was awarded 476MW for its Baltic Eagle project and 10MW for its Wikinger Süd site, but unsuccessful in securing capacity for its 252MW Windanker wind farm.
And it was given the green-light for its 496MW Saint-Brieuc project off the French coast, when the government agreed a new, reduced tariff, effectively saving it from cancellation.
Iberdrola's clean energy subsidiary in North America Avangrid Renewables' net income rose 21% in the first half of the year, from $100 million to $121 million.
Its net income increased 129% quarter-on-quarter, reaching $71 million in the second quarter of 2018.
These increases came despite "lower than normal" wind generation, according to CEO James Torgerson.
Avangrid's onshore wind production in the US increased 12% year-on-year to 9,174GWh for the first six months of 2018.
The company had increased its installed wind capacity to 6,143MW, up 7.3% year-on-year, in the first half of 2018.
Its 298MW El Cabo, 208MW Desert Wind and 131MW Tule wind farms were among those entering operations between January and July.
Meanwhile, the 800MW Vineyard Wind project, which Avangrid co-owns with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), secured capacity in Masschusetts' first offshore wind tender.
Overall, the Iberdrola group's revenue rose to €17.5 billion in the first half of the year — up 17.5% from the previous year — while Ebitda increased 17.1% year-on-year to €4.4 billion.


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Mika Vainio - Fe3O4 - Magnetite
Artist: Mika Vainio
Album: Fe3O4 - Magnetite
Amongst the ironies of Panasonic (later Pan Sonic) — the name that Finnish electronic musicians Mika Vaino and Ilpo Väisänen gave to their long-running and recently retired musical project — is this fact: While it implied an involvement with all sounds, they sure took their time getting beyond the elements of beats and tones. And to the very end, no matter how far they strayed from those essentials, they always returned to them. Vainio's efforts under the name Ø could be even more reductive, while his work under his own name has tended toward extremes of loom and crumble; his last solo album Life (…it eats you up) is a massively heavy abstraction of guitar rock.
His new release, Fe304 - Magnetite, makes good on the Panasonic promise. Vainio seems comfortable using almost anything. At different points during its passage you'll hear a solitary wood block, a clicking movie projector, a cymbal, a field recording of distant mall music, a shortwave radio not quite tuned into a station, some massive synth bass, and some flaking granite guitar noise. Beats, however, are pretty thin on the ground. In keeping with his past minimalist approach, sounds often appear in isolation, but Vainio seems more willing to overtly intervene with them; much of "Magnetosome," for example, seems to be made out of stretched and transformed bell tones.
His taste in sounds and sense of what to do to them is unimpeachable, but the album's greatest strength is its resistance to categorization. It has noisy moments, but it's too spare to be noise. It uses field recordings, but not in a documentary fashion. It's too uneasy and abruptly changeable to be ambient music, despite having long passages where things happen slowly. And while some of those long passages feel like slides mounted in a catalog of sounds, there is a spot tucked into the back end of "Magnetosense" that sounds like spooky movie music. What is this stuff? Hard to say, but that's what keeps me coming back.
By Bill Meyer
Other Reviews of Mika Vainio
In the Land of the Blind One-Eyed is King
Aineen Musta Puhelin (Black Telephone of Matter)
Life (...It Eats You Up)
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Lock in a great price for Radisson Blu Hotel Marseille Vieux Port – rated 8.3 by recent guests!
Breakfast was nice, staff at the restaurant friendly the hotel could be nicer with a warmer welcome from the front office agent.
I appreciate only the concirge guy who was very kind, nothing else.
It's a great location. Very central. Lots of restaurants nearby and easy to get to sites.
Proximity of the location to the wedding venue we attended and the nice ocean view.
Location is perfect for tourism, right away thrnharbour, castle, museums, markets, really walkable for everything, so convenient!! Nice hotel plus good continental breakfast.
Beds were very comfortable, location at the Port was Marseilles was excellent, staff was polite, and dinner on-site was tasty.
Very comfortable stay in the center of Marseille, well placed, close to restaurants, Port is in front. The pool and lasure facilities deserve the special note, especially during summer trip, big advantage. Old city is close. The room is big, lobby and restaurant is a good alternative for relaxation after sightseeing. Staff is professional. And the breakfast was perfect, 25euro for full buffet with wide variety of food. Very nice two days stay in Marseille.
The location was perfect!! The pool looked very nice! Staff at the desk was very friendly and helpful!
This hotel was right on the main street that runs along the quay, with amazing views of the boats in the marina and the surrounding area. The restaurant spills out onto the sidewalk, and there are many other sidewalk cafes along the quay. It was a great area to walk around in, and near all the boat trips, shopping, etc. The rooftop pool was lovely and perfect for cooling off, and the pool staff was great! Best mojitos I have had! The front desk staff was very helpful for getting our lost luggage from the airline.
Great staff and concierge Loved our room and the location is very good, close to all the action. The rooms are big and comfortable.
One of our top picks in Marseille.Located in Marseille overlooking the Vieux Port, Radisson Blu Hotel Marseille Vieux Port is a 4-star hotel. It offers an outdoor swimming pool overlooking Fort Saint-Nicholas and a fitness room with a panoramic view of the main monuments of the city. Free WiFi access is available.
The air-conditioned guest rooms feature either a Provencal or an African décor. Some rooms have a view of the port and a Nespresso coffee machine. Each room is equipped with a flat-screen TV with cable channels. Bathrobes and slippers are provided in the suites.
The Quai du 7eme restaurant serves Mediterranean cuisine and proposes buffet breakfast every morning and guests can also enjoy cocktails and tapas in the Bar, with a view over the port.
A boules pitch can be enjoyed on the interior courtyard. With a 24-hour reception, Radisson Blu Hotel Marseille Vieux Port is also partnered with the 5 Mondes Spa just 150 feet away, where beauty treatments are possible at a discounted rate.
Indigo La Criée Car Park is just 250 feet away, available for an additional charge.
When would you like to stay at Radisson Blu Hotel Marseille Vieux Port?
Each room is equipped with a flat-screen TV with cable channels and free Wi-Fi access. A safe, and facilities for making coffee and tea are provided.
This room offers views of the old port, a Nespresso coffee machine and facilities for making coffee and tea. A safe is provided and the private bathroom includes slippers, bathrobes and free toiletries.
This suite features a separate living room with a flat-screen TV, free magazines and newspapers. There is no extra cost when using the sofa bed.
Additional features include a Nespresso coffee machine, bathrobes and slippers.
This suite features a seating area and bathrobes and slippers in the bathroom. There is no extra cost when using the sofa bed.
With views of the Citadel, this room offers a Nespresso coffee machine, a flat-screen TV and facilities for making coffee and tea. A safe and a private bathroom with bathrobes and slippers are provided.
This double room has a cable TV, mini-bar and air conditioning. A safe and facilities for making coffee and tea are provided.
Welcome to the Radisson Blu Marseille Vieux-Port, located in the centre of Marseille and its historic Vieux-Port district, the most attractive place in the city.
House Rules Radisson Blu Hotel Marseille Vieux Port takes special requests – add in the next step!
Radisson Blu Hotel Marseille Vieux Port accepts these cards and reserves the right to temporarily hold an amount prior to arrival.
Please note that guests are required to show a credit card upon check-in. The details of this card must match the details of the reservation's holder.
For advance payment, the credit card used to pay the deposit must be in the name of the guest and be presented upon check in.
Breakfast is free for children 12 and under, and costs EUR 12.50 for children between 13 and 17 years old.
Please note that the swimming pool with be closed from 15 October until 01 May.
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Reception staff where a bit cold . Had a booking issue which could have been resolved very quickly but had to get booking.com to assist which they did admirably.
Clean room and comfortable . Port view was very good and well worth paying for . Breakfast was good and worth having. Concierge was very helpful .
The windows and the window sill were dirty! Pity, I could not touch the window sill when I open the window to see the beautiful view.
Very beautiful experience if you stay in a sea view room. Excelent location and breakfast. Ask for the parking adress before your arrival, since it is located in the street before the main entrance of the hotel. Good public parking located about 100-150 metres from the hotel (no inner communication between hotel and parking).
Breakfast was exactly the same every day.
Location was great, room v good, great view over pool!
Great location next to the beautiful old port, with plenty of restaurants and bars within easy walking distance. Staff on reception were extremely friendly and helpful.
The staff were helpful however when asking for recommendations eg where to eat etc the options offered were not the best.
The location was great and the rooms very clean.
The rooms were a bit old, mold in the bathroom, stripes on the Walls, time for refurbishing.
The Staff are absolutely wonderful, my wife was ill and they made us feel fantastic .. best hotel staff ever !!
Breakfast was lovely and the location is really great. Delicious dinner.
Unpleasant and impolite service from the guy in charge for the breakfast. Not only rude and impolite to us but also to other clients and the employees who has been working during breakfast time.


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Women Constitute Only 17.4% of Mobile Subscribers in India: DoT Data
Mumbai has a meagre 11.85% women mobile subscriptions, which is higher only to Haryana, where the rate is 10.99%.
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New Delhi: The mobile revolution has touched around a billion people in India, but it seems that primarily men have benefitted from it as women make for a meagre 17.4% of mobile subscribers in the country.
As on March 31 last year, there were over 990 million mobile subscriptions in the country, of which only 172.42 million were women, according to data from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT).
Men accounted for 795.89 million subscriptions whereas 22.5 million subscriptions were not identified. The DoT has not yet shared details about gender-specific mobile subscriptions for current year.
After analysing the details for every telecom circle interesting facts emerged. Mumbai has only 11.85% women mobile subscriptions, which is higher only to Haryana, where the rate is 10.99%. At 31%, North East, where society is mainly matriarchal, has the highest percentage of mobile subscriptions in the name of women.
The capital city of New Delhi has 15.29% women mobile subscriptions.
A senior official in the DoT said fewer women subscriptions does not entirely mean that women are not using mobile phones. "In most of the cases, the male member of a family takes several mobile connections under his name, which are being used by all the members of the family, including children and women," the official said.
The official though added that even considering this practice, women still lag in terms of mobile phone usage. As per an industry watcher, the situation is grim in some rural areas, where many women are not allowed to use mobile phones.
According to a recent report by LIRNEAsia, India has the highest gender gap in mobile phone ownership among 18 comparable countries including Pakistan and Bangladesh. It said 80% of men use mobile phones in India while the number for women stood at 43%.
Another report by Internet and Mobile Association of India and Kantar IMRB had stated that only 30% of internet users in India were women.
By arrangement with Business Standard.


FREMONT, CA: Computer software giant Microsoft is empowering over 50 IT partners in Singapore including independent software vendors and application builders in a view to support its Smart Nation Vision by helping government and private organizations to increase Internet Of Things (IoT) applications. These partners build applications by utilizing the untapped data as workable knowledge to help organizations in becoming customer-centric and more responsive.
The proliferation of data and devices creates a vast opportunity for businesses to make their applications more intelligent by tapping into the data. The combination of cloud, connectivity and mobility technologies is also enabling the enterprise models to shift to IoT for reimaging their businesses.
Microsoft has chosen its partners based their vision of IoT adoption and acceleration in business transformation. These partners having a presence in across industry verticals such as manufacturing, oil and gas, building management, and healthcare co-develop solutions around asset management, smart building facilities, remote monitoring and predictive maintenance to build an environment integrating the devices, connectivity and analytics through the cloud. The lists of partners include Astoria solutions, Nextan and S3 Innovate.
The initiative from Microsoft will enable selected partners to boost their IoT capabilities in Singapore. The partners will have deeper access to Microsoft Azure IoT suite technical roadmap that helps partners to broaden their IoT offerings through pre-configured solutions.
"We live in a connected world, and the Internet Of Things are allowing organizations to accomplish what was previously unimaginable- or so costly so as to prohibitive to all but the largest organizations- just a few short years ago", says Gerald Leo, director of small midmarket solutions an partner group at Microsoft Singapore.
Microsoft is helping the partners by extending its resources to develop business go-to-market strategies and increase their IoT contributions along with the technical course offerings.


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Trump says US Navy ship destroys Iranian drone in Strait of Hormuz
Trump administration invokes privilege again, blocks intel committee from classified Mueller docs, sources say
In wake of 'send her back' Trump rally chants, Democrats reframe 2020 race as fight for the identity of the country
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danielfela/iStock(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump confirmed on Friday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would conduct weekend raids to deport immigrants with outstanding orders to leave the country.
Trump said the raids will target criminals, but immigration advocates say the agency is increasingly targeting families who have recently entered the country. The president did not not give a specific time for when the ICE operations would take place on Sunday.
"There's nothing to be secret about. Can I tell you what? There's nothing to be secret about. ICE is law enforcement, they're great patriots. They have a tough job. Nothing to be secret about," Trump told reporters at the White House on Friday.
"If the word gets out, it gets out. Hundreds of people know about it. It's a major operation. So if the word gets out, it gets out. It starts on Sunday and they're going to take people out and they're going to bring them back to their countries or they're going to take criminals out, put them in prison, or put them in prison in the countries they came from. We're focused on criminals as much as we can before we do anything else," Trump said.
ICE has declined, however, to comment on the timing of any raids. The New York Times had reported they would take place Sunday morning.
Major cities across the U.S. on Thursday were bracing for sweeping deportation raids this weekend, the second time in less than a month that Trump administration insiders have signaled roundups were imminent.
Trump also brushed off criticism from mayors who are against the action, saying the criticism is only from sanctuary cities.
"The mayors in sanctuary cities, a mayor like de Blasio who's probably the worst mayor in the country. I don't know what his attitude is, nobody does, because he doesn't work very hard. Nobody knows what he does. But a guy like de Blasio probably wouldn't want the raid. Many mayors do. Most do. You know why? They don't want to have crime in their cities or states," he said.
When raids were reportedly planned last month, mayors of cities like Los Angeles, Baltimore, and Chicago pushed back, saying the city and local law enforcement would not cooperate with ICE. Mayor Lori Lightfoot in Chicago specifically directed the Chicago Police Department not to help ICE or allow them to access the department's databases.
Mayor LaToya Cantrell and DHS confirmed there will be no immigration enforcement this weekend in New Orleans, where the city is bracing for dangerous flooding from tropical storm Barry.
The raids were intended as a massive show of force against undocumented immigrants by President Donald Trump, who last month tipped his hand when he vowed on Twitter that "millions" would be deported.
While administration officials have called that estimate an exaggeration, they confirmed there are 2,000 people in as many as 10 cities who have been identified as a top priority for deportation — many of them families.
Those raids were called off last month after Trump gave Democrats two weeks to change the nation's laws that guarantee the right for people to apply for asylum.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said "there may be some possibilities for what we can do" but that it would take some time. She called targeting non-criminal families "heartless" and said it was up to Trump's supporters to press him to abandon his plan.
"I'm going to appeal to people of faith, the faith-based organizations to appeal to the president … they put him in office and they have a better voice for this," Nancy Pelosi tells @jparkabc when asked if she will appeal to Trump to put off ICE raids https://t.co/O1HyHo73DL pic.twitter.com/hDPJmLARQI
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"I'm going to appeal to people of faith, the faith-based organizations to appeal to the president. … They put him in office and they have a better voice for this," she told reporters.
The large-scale operation would be a departure from past practices, in which U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has focused its resources on rounding up people with criminal records who "pose a threat to public safety." This approach would include families and send ICE officers to people's homes.
"As always, ICE prioritizes the arrest and removal of unlawfully present aliens who pose a threat to national security, public safety and border security," according to a statement.
The effort to deport individuals over failing to appear in immigration court is now being challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union. A lawsuit filed on Thursday by the ACLU argues that the government has continuously failed to properly inform individuals of their court dates — an attempt to preempt the massive ICE raids that are reportedly expected to begin this weekend.
The lawsuit, according to a statement from the New York Civil Liberties Union, "describes in detail, these refugees failed to appear because of massive bureaucratic errors and, in some cases, deliberate misdirection by immigration enforcement agencies."
"The agencies' flagrant and widespread errors made it impossible for people to know when their hearings were being held," the statement continued.
"The Trump administration's threats against immigrants run roughshod over basic fairness and due process," said New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Donna Lieberman in a statement. "For the many families who came here as refugees fleeing violence, deportation is a death threat. We will fight to ensure no one faces this kind of peril without having their case considered in court."
One undocumented woman who has lived in the U.S. for 20 years told ABC News, "How do I protect myself? Mainly one just stays locked inside one's home and tries to not leave unless it's completely necessary — like to work, to buy food and just stay locked inside."
"That's mainly how I spend my time," the woman, who spoke to ABC News on the condition of anonymity, said in Spanish. "You don't want to venture out to do activities, why? Out of fear that the police will get you, investigate you, question you, there's a lot of fear, a lot of anxiety, a lot of uncertainty that one carries inside due to being unstable."
John Cohen, a former senior official at the Homeland Security Department and ABC News contributor, said launching deportation raids at people's homes would consume the agency's resources.
"What people need to understand is that every ICE agent used in this operation will not be available to go after criminal aliens, gang members, terrorists" or other priorities, he said.
Jorge-Mario Cabrera, spokesman for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles, or CHIRLA, said the group is already aware of two families who encountered ICE agents in the last week, including one case in which a dozen agents arrived at a home. Cabrera said no one was detained in those incidents because they knew they did not have to open the door.
He said CHIRLA attorneys, who are prepared to post bail and offer representation for immigrants who are taken into custody, are activating a rapid response network and will be on watch for increased ICE activity over the weekend.
Immigration advocates in Chicago were doing the same.
"We're here today because the Trump administration is threatening our communities again," said Mony Ruiz-Velasco, president of the board for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. "We are also here today because we will not allow that to happen and we are ready, we are ready to defend each other and defend our communities and we are organized."
Senate Democrats on Thursday proposed legislation that they said would provide alternatives to migrant detention at the border.
"Donald Trump and some of his right wing allies in media would have you believe these are all hardened criminals. They're not. They're simply seeking a better life for themselves and their children," said Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
Mark Morgan, who recently was leading ICE until being put in charge of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said enforcing the nation's immigration laws matter.
"We're trying to send a message to the family units that 'don't come here and don't put your life at risk, your children's life at risk,'" he told ABC News last month.
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Two men who urinated on a police car and later returned to the scene of the crime were arrested twice in the same day, authorities said.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported where the alleged offenses occurred and which police department's car was involved. The story has been corrected below.
BROOKLAWN - Two men who urinated on a Brooklawn police car and later returned to the scene of the crime were arrested twice in the same day, authorities said.
Andrew Smith, 19, of Woodbury and Christopher Ferrell, 18, of Gloucester City were arrested Sunday when a detective saw them urinating on a marked car on New Broadway near Town Center Road, police said. They were released after being charged with disturbing the peace and possession of marijuana, police said.
Later that day, the same detective and another officer saw Smith and Ferrell "loitering around the marked patrol unit again," police said.
While the officers spoke with the men, Ferrell and Smith began screaming, using offensive language and acting disorderly, police said. Their actions "got the attention of several of the surrounding residents," police said.
The officers told Smith and Ferrell that they were under arrest for disorderly conduct, but the men then tried to run away, police. They were taken into custody after a brief chase, police said.


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Q: Reading d NetCDF4 format climate data observation in R? I downloaded yearly Temp/Precip observation by the globe from here: Free open source climate data archive, and I download those for my research case: Terrestrial Air Temperature: 1900-2014 Gridded Monthly Time Series (V 4.01) and Terrestrial Precipitation: 1900-2014 Gridded Monthly Time Series (V 4.01). I need to clip out all data observation record of all German weather stations. However, I intend to extract average annual temperature and annual precipitation for each of these station coordinates of Germany.
But, when I tried to load those data and read them in R, I ran into problems. Respective data archive's website can be found look here. I think data format could be NetCDF4 format based on the description from above web link 4. I installed raster and ncdf4 package to read the data in R, but such operations were failed.
Here is how data look like:
list.files("stella/data/air_temp_1980_2014/", recursive = TRUE)

 [1] "air_temp.1980" "air_temp.1981" "air_temp.1982" "air_temp.1983"
 [5] "air_temp.1984" "air_temp.1985" "air_temp.1986" "air_temp.1987"
 [9] "air_temp.1988" "air_temp.1989" "air_temp.1990" "air_temp.1991"
[13] "air_temp.1992" "air_temp.1993" "air_temp.1994" "air_temp.1995"
[17] "air_temp.1996" "air_temp.1997" "air_temp.1998" "air_temp.1999"
[21] "air_temp.2000" "air_temp.2001" "air_temp.2002" "air_temp.2003"
[25] "air_temp.2004" "air_temp.2005" "air_temp.2006" "air_temp.2007"
[29] "air_temp.2008" "air_temp.2009" "air_temp.2010" "air_temp.2011"
[33] "air_temp.2012" "air_temp.2013" "air_temp.2014"

Here is what I did in R:
library(ncdf4)
library(raster)
list.files("stella/data/air_temp_1980_2014/", recursive = TRUE)

nc_open("stella/data/air_temp_1980_2014/air_temp.1980")
raster("stella/data/air_temp_1980_2014/air_temp.1980")

Here is error that raised by Rstudio:
> nc_open("stella/data/air_temp_1980_2014/air_temp.1980")
Error in R_nc4_open: NetCDF: Unknown file format
Error in nc_open("stella/data/air_temp_1980_2014/air_temp.1980") :
  Error in nc_open trying to open file stella/data/air_temp_1980_2014/air_temp.1980

> raster("stella/data/air_temp_1980_2014/air_temp.1980")
Error in .local(.Object, ...) : Couldn't determine X spacing

Error in .rasterObjectFromFile(x, band = band, objecttype = "RasterLayer",  :
  Cannot create a RasterLayer object from this file.

FYI, here I put the data on the fly for the test on your machine, files can be found on the fly, Here and Here.
How can I read those data in R?
Plus, I only need to pull out all station coordinates of germany from yearly Temp observation for the globe?
How can I make this happen in R?
Any workaround to do this?
Any more thoughts?

How can I read those data correctly in R (as data.frame object in R) ?
How to deal with this data?
Any thoughts?

A: These data are not in a netcdf format but, rather a space delimited ASCII format. This data is a bit difficult to deal with because of the lack of headers and any type of unique station identifier.
Returns a vector of file names on disk and pulls associate years from file name.
f <- list.files(getwd())
y <- as.numeric(unlist(lapply(strsplit(f, "[.]"), function(x) {x[2]})))

Reads files, adds associated year and combines into single data.frame.
stations <- data.frame()
  for(i in 1:length(f)) {
    d <- read.table(f[1], sep = "" , header = FALSE, na.strings = "")
      d[,"year"] <- y[i]
        names(d) <- c("long","lat", format(ISOdate(2000, 1:12, 1), "%b"), "year")
    stations <- rbind(stations, d)
}
stations$ID <- paste(stations[,1], stations[,2], sep="_")
  str(stations)

Since there is no unique identifier for a given station, it is difficult to aggregate the duplicate coordinates to each given unique station location. I had to get creative and use a unique concatenated vector of the coordinate pairs. Once you have the data subset to the desired region, you can use merge() or which(x %in% y) to create a subset index, with the ID column, containing the unique coordinate pairs to relate back to the data. However, since the data is by year, in a wide format, you cannot store it as a spatial class object without duplicating the feature geometry. Please give some though on how you are going to analyze this data before just jumping in.
library(sp)
xy <- unique( paste(stations[,1], stations[,2], sep="_")  )
stations.xy <- data.frame(long = as.numeric(unlist(lapply(strsplit(xy, "_"), function(x) {x[1]}))),
                          lat =  as.numeric(unlist(lapply(strsplit(xy, "_"), function(x) {x[2]}))))
    stations.xy$ID <- xy
    coordinates(stations.xy) <- ~long+lat

str(stations.xy@data)
  plot(stations.xy)

I am skipping any overlay/subset analysis because it is covered in your previous question. However, this can easily be accomplished using raster::intersect, spatialEco:point.in.poly, sp::over, rgeos::gIntersects, etc...


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'Iolani Palace is a magnificent mansion that preserves an important part of Hawaiian history. The Palace is well worth visiting when in Honolulu, and is one of the main structures to see on the Honolulu Historic District Walk.
'Iolani Palace was the official residence of the reigning Hawaiian sovereign, King Kamehameha, and the only royal palace in the United States. The cornerstone was laid on December 31, 1879. The Hawaiian government at the time had appropriated funds to build the Palace as a way to mark Hawaii's status as a modern nation. The building was complete by August 1882, and that original palace was known as Hale Ali'I (House of the Chief), however that was demolished in 1874 to make way for the palace that stands today, which was renamed 'Iolani Palace. 'Iolani means 'Royal Hawk' in the Hawaiian language. Top image by: AKM.Pics's
Two monarchs governed from the Palace: King Kalakaua and Queen Lili'uokalani, and Kamehameha III, IV and V utilized the palace as their main residence. The monarchy was overthrown by the U.S. in 1893, was then used as a capitol building, and was finally restored and opened as a public museum in 1978. Apparently the area was once the site of an ancient heiau (Hawaiian Temple) that was destroyed.
King Kamehameha statue, which is found across the street
In 1825, a white-washed coral block was constructed as a royal tomb for the remains of Kamehameha II and his wife, Queen Kamamalu. In subsequent years, many kings of Hawaii were buried at the site, but in 1865 eighteen coffins were removed and transferred to a Royal Mausoleum in Nuuanu Valley. Today, the royal tomb area is located in the southeast quadrant of the grounds. With respect for Hawaiian chiefs who may still be buried there, it is marked by a fenced area with 'kapu' signs indicating it is a forbidden area.
Also on the Palace Grounds is Iolani Barracks, which looks like a medieval castle, was completed in 1871 and is also a coral block structure that contains an open courtyard which is surrounded by rooms that once housed the royal palace and royal tomb guards, before the overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy. The Barracks were originally located on the grounds that the Hawaii State Capitol Building sits and was moved block by block and reconstructed in 1965 to be where it is now on the Iolani Palace grounds, where it houses the ticket office and the Palace Gift Shop (open Tues-Sat 8.30am-4.30pm).
The first and second floors of 'Iolani Palace have been meticulously restored and house the stunning Throne Room, Grand Hall, The State Dining Room, the Blue Room, as well as the private suites of the King and Queen. Portraits of Hawaiian Royalty line the walls. Lush crimson and gold décor fill the Throne Room and beautifully carved doors featuring Hawaiian woods abound.
There is a choice of two tour options at 'Iolani Palace, located in Downtown Honolulu: either a Guided Tour ($21.75) or a Self-Led Audio Tour ($14.75). Approximately 90 minutes is required for either tour, and both tours include an exploration of the first and second floors of the Palace.
The ticket office is located in the 'Iolani Barracks on the Palace grounds and can be contacted on 808 522 0832.
Hours of operation are Monday through Saturday 9am-4pm.
For a step back in time and to learn all about the Hawaiian Monarch, 'Iolani Palace is really worth visiting.
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U rimskoj mitologiji, Merkur je bog trgovine i putovanja, glasnik bogova. Po njemu je ime dobio planet Merkur, i element merkurij. Pandan mu je u grčkoj mitologiji Hermes. Povezivan je s germanskim bogom rata, Wotanom. Merkurov hram bio je blizu brda Palatina, u Circus Maximusu.

Merkur je sin Jupitera, vrhovnog boga čiji je grčki pandan Zeus, i Maje, nimfe (u grčkoj mitologiji Maja je Atlantova kćer). Merkur je imao slična obilježja kao i Hermes (u grčkoj mitologiji sin Zeusa i Maje). Merkur je tako nosio krilate sandale i kacigu, te glasnički štap, a ponekad i šešir protiv Sunca, što je bilo karakteristično Hermesu.

Epiteti

Mercurius Arvernus - keltski bog Arvernus zajedno s Merkurom.

Mercurius Cissonius - kombinacija Merkura i keltskog boga Cissoniusa.

Mercurius Esibraeus - Merkur zajedno s bogom Esibraeusom, štovan u Portugalu.

Mercurius Gebrinus - Merkur zajedno s keltskim ili germanskim bogom Gebrinusom, štovan u Njemačkoj.

Mercurius Mocus - kombinacija Merkura i Moccusa, povezan s lovom na vepra.

Mercurius Visucius - kombinacija keltskog Visuciusa i Merkura, postoji i žensko božanstvo - Visucia.

 Rimski bogovi

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I want to start off this little entry by wishing you all a happy New Year! I am hoping that 2009 will be a little more stable on the home / work front for me this year, but all in all life is good and we are looking forward to riding in 2009. I have been asked to be a ride comittee member for the Lonestar BMW club here in North Dallas. I am looking forward to helping with organizing some good rides in the upcomming year. So with that in mind I have started to work on a couple of rides for the first half of 2009. It looks like that our first trip to Arkansas this year will be on April 23-26th. We are trying to avoid a cold strat to this seasons riding. the past two years the first ride has been early April and it has been really cold, so we thought we would back it up a few weeks. This will also be herman's first longer journey since his heart issues in October of 08. Here are a few tentative details for that trip.
Arkansas April Ride: April 23-26th.
April 23: Depart around 12:00 PM ride to Ozark AR.
April 24: Do a loop up into N Arkansas including Push mountain, we will finish up in Eureka Springs.
April 26: Head back to N Dallas.
We do this trip 3-5 times a year and it never gets old. This is a great way to kick off the riding season.
This trip is still in the planning stages. We had planned to attend the BMW national meet in July in Tennessee but the dates do not work for us, as we have a family reunion to attend. I spoke with a few of the guys and since we were already in that part of the country last year on a trip, that maybe we should head towards Colorado this year. We were there a few years ago and love riding in that area. We would venture into Utah as well. Stay tuned for more information.